InSAR time series investigation of land subsidence due to groundwater overexploitation in Tehran, Iran

Author

Alipour, S. ; Motgah, M. ; Sharifi, M.A. ; Walter, T.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Surveying & Geomatics Eng., Univ. of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

fYear

2008

fDate

11-14 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Land surface deformation associated with groundwater overexploitation is a serious challenge for plain aquifers of Iran, particularly in semiarid and arid region. In the Greater Tehran area, the capital of Iran with a population of 14 million people, ground-water discharge has exceeded natural recharge over the last decades, causing significant drawdown of groundwater level and land subsidence. In this study we use 46 Envisat ASAR data acquired in descending and ascending orbits between 2003 and 2007 to examine in detail the spatio-temporal pattern of land subsidence in Tehran.

Keywords

groundwater; radar interferometry; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2003 to 2007; Envisat ASAR data; Greater Tehran area; InSAR time series investigation; Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar; Iran; aquifers; ground-water discharge; groundwater overexploitation; land subsidence; land surface deformation; spatio-temporal pattern; Cities and towns; Geology; Image analysis; Orbits; Radar imaging; Radar tracking; Spaceborne radar; Surface discharges; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry; Underwater tracking; Envisat ASAR; Land Subsidence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Use of Remote Sensing Techniques for Monitoring Volcanoes and Seismogenic Areas, 2008. USEReST 2008. Second Workshop on

Conference_Location

Naples

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2546-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2547-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/USEREST.2008.4740370

Filename

4740370